On top of a contract for $285,000 to oversee international swim and dive competitions in Windsor over the next three years, city taxpayers will also pay Peter Knowles about $14,000 for travel in each of 2014 and 2015.

Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino was forced to apologize to snubbed vets Wednesday, and the NDP will use its opposition day in the House of Commons Thursday to introduce a motion to stop this week’s slated closure of eight VA offices across Canada, including Windsor’s.

I don’t know about impossible, but given that it’s taken almost 20 years to churn out five instalments of this series – something the early Bond franchise managed in six years, and the 1960s M:I TV show in just six weeks – these missions are certainly a lot of work